User talk:Njk

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[edit] Welcome!

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Matani2005 | Talk 18:58, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

May I ask if you reside in Port Townsend, WA?

[edit] Diana Krall

Hey Njk,

I was under the impression it was Ray Brown who discovered Diana Krall, not Jeff Hamilton. Could you enlighten me? I don't really know a lot about any of them, but that's just what I remember hearing...

Jarfingle 07:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I went ahead and found her official bio:
Diana won a Vancouver Jazz Festival scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1981 and, after a year and a half of serious study, she returned to British Columbia. Master bassist Ray Brown heard her playing one night in Nanaimo and was so impressed by what he heard that he took her under his wing and his mentoring relationship with her continues to this day. Ray suggested Diana move to Los Angeles where she obtained a Canadian Arts Council grant to study with Jimmy Rowles.
Ray Brown's interest in Diana's musical development is reflected in the liner notes for her first recording, Stepping Out, where she was joined by their mutual friends, Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton. After three years on the West Coast and a stint in Toronto, Diana moved to New York City in 1990. From this home base, she was able to focus on developing her singing and playing at a regular gig in Boston with her own trio. Shortly thereafter, she began her recording career and the rest, as they will most definitely say, is history.
Sounds like Jeff definately had a part in it and his story is I'm sure true, but it sounds like official "credit" (which, I guess, is an inherently silly thing to say) should go to Ray Brown. I hope I wasn't too bold in going ahead and reverting your edit on the Jeff Hamitlon disambig page to the "pre-discover" version.
Jarfingle 12:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)